DISCLAIMER: The following links do not necessarily represent endorsement by the Geoscience Research Institute, but are meant to provide information from a wide range of viewpoints and expertise on scientific issues, religious issues, and the interface between the two, particularly in the area of creation and evolution.
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Why Just Five Digits on Tetrapod Limbs?
June 14, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Two family members each possessing an extra digit on each limb find that having a sixth finger is beneficial and useful.
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Only Some Cells Have “Licences” to Kill? Let’s Look at What That Means
June 14, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Researchers: Gene Translation “Much More Complex Than Previously Thought”
June 14, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Hacked Genome Damages Cell, Declares Creator's Genius
June 13, 2019 Institute for Creation Research
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Ethics of AI: how should we treat rational, sentient robots -- if they existed?
June 13, 2019 The Conversation
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Jump around: How ‘jumping genes' could transform gene editing
June 13, 2019 Yahoo! News
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How Mitochondria Protect Themselves from Mutations
June 13, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
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Review: The Why, Not the How, of the Origin of Consciousness
June 13, 2019 Mind Matters
Ventureyra’s new book treats the origin of consciousness as a “first instantiation of a new law of nature”
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News Update/Commentary
Zebras' stripes could be used to control their temperature, study reveals
June 13, 2019 Science Daily
New research indicates that zebras' stripes are used to control body temperature after all -- and reveals for the first time a new mechanism for how this may be achieved.
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News Update/Commentary
Viruses found to use intricate ‘treadmill' to move cargo across bacterial cells
June 13, 2019 Science Daily
State-of-the-art technologies reveal bacterial cells organized like human cells, offering insights for new phage therapies on untreatable infections
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Philip Cunningham: Darwinian Materialism vs. Quantum Biology -- Part II
June 13, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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A Hair-Raising Theory for Why Zebras Have Stripes
June 13, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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How a Cell Protects Itself
June 13, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Researchers: Multicellular Animals Started Out Complex
June 13, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Blog Post
Another Pane of Glass
June 12, 2019 powerline
many problems with the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming theory
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Baby pterodactyls could fly from birth
June 12, 2019 University of Leicester
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A licence to kill during inflammation
June 12, 2019 Nature
Inflammasomes are protein complexes that fight infection by driving inflammation or cell death. It now seems that the protein NEK7 provides a ‘licence’ for the formation of inflammasomes containing the protein NLRP3.
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The storytelling arms race: origin of human intelligence and the scientific mind
June 12, 2019 Heredity, v.123, n.67-78
Human language and intelligence go far beyond biological needs, allowing us to discuss abstract ideas, construct imaginary worlds, and do science and mathematics. How did such an ability arise?
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Blog Post
The Coelacanth: A Case of Scientific Obscurantism
June 12, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
This fish hasn’t evolved for 66 million Darwin Years and is a classic “living fossil.” We get a Darwin fish story anyway.
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Does Vivid Imagination Help “Explain" Consciousness?
June 12, 2019 Mind Matters
A popular science magazine struggles to make the case
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News Update/Commentary
How multi-celled animals developed: Evolutionary discovery to rewrite textbooks
June 12, 2019 Science Daily
New findings challenge the long-standing idea that multi-celled animals evolved from a single-celled ancestor resembling a modern sponge cell known as a choanocyte.
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News Update/Commentary
Mouse study finds BPA exposure has transgenerational effects on gene linked to autism
June 12, 2019 Science Daily
Social recognition test used for first time in mice shows behavioral deficit
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News Update/Commentary
A microscopic topographic map of cellular function
June 12, 2019 Science Daily
The flow of traffic through our nation's highways and byways is meticulously mapped and studied, but less is known about how materials in cells travel.
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News Update/Commentary
How the cell protects itself
June 12, 2019 Science Daily
Researchers discover the mechanism that prevents damage caused by shortened proteins
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PLOS Editor Reflects on Teaching Evolutionary Biology “Sensitively”?
June 12, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Cosmic Cold Spots Now “Even Weirder”
June 12, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Did You Know? An “Evolutionary” Excuse for Getting Hammered!
June 12, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Why Is There Magnetite in the Human Brain?
June 11, 2019 Real Clear Science
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Cut the Habitable Worlds by Half (or More)
June 11, 2019 Creation-Evolution Headlines
Astrobiologists figure that most earth-like planets give off toxic gases.
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Genetic Surprises Support Intelligent Design Claims
June 11, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Total Darwin Rewrite in Progress: “Survival of the Fittest” Now Means “Sympathy”
June 11, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Materialism’s Secret of Success, Hint: It’s Not Evidence
June 11, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Rob Sheldon: What That Hot New Quantum Experiment Really Showed
June 11, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Sex Evolved as a Strategy Against Cancer?
June 11, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Prominent Psychologist Offers Non-Reductive Approach to Consciousness in Journal Article
June 11, 2019 Mind Matters
A new edition of Communications of the Blyth Institute highlights mind, consciousness, and machine learning
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The Mind Can't Be Just a Computer
June 11, 2019 Mind Matters
Gödel demonstrated that fact and Turing tried to live with it
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Genetic Surprises Support Intelligent Design Claims
June 11, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Behe Up Against the Sociology of Science
June 11, 2019 Evolution News & Science Today
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Epigenetic Learning Appears Confirmed in Nematodes; Weismann Barrier Broken
June 11, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Is it possible to teach evolutionary biology “sensitively”?
June 10, 2019 Bioliteracy
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New Neuroscience Discovery May Disrupt Biology
June 10, 2019 Psychology Today
Study shows that nervous system cells can transmit information to progeny.
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New Book Exposes How Evolutionary ‘Science’ Devolves
June 10, 2019 The Gospel Coalition
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Video
No, You're Not a Robot Made Out of Meat
June 10, 2019 YouTube
Are we simply robots made out of meat? Or is there an inescapable “I” who makes real choices that can change our lives? This episode of Science Uprising challenges claims by materialists like Steven Pinker, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett
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Science Uprising: Stop Ignoring Evidence for the Existence of the Human Mind!
June 10, 2019 Mind Matters
Materialism enables irrational ideas about ourselves to compete with rational ones on an equal basis. It won’t work
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Mystery hominin had sex with ancestors of Neanderthals and Denisovans
June 10, 2019 New Scientist
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News Update/Commentary
Switchgrass hybrid yields insights into plant evolution
June 10, 2019 Science Daily
Scientists have identified specific parts of genetic code within switchgrass that could contribute to larger switchgrass harvests while reducing potential crop weaknesses.
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Theoretical Physicist: Recent Claim About Big Quantum Mechanics Find Is “Silly”
June 10, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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A “Gender Non-Binary Dino” Is Not a Useful Teaching Moment
June 10, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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Fastest Known Bite in the Animal Kingdom?
June 10, 2019 Uncommon Descent
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News Update/Commentary
A new candidate for dark matter and a way to detect it
June 10, 2019 Science Daily
Two theoretical physicists have a new candidate for dark matter and a possible way to detect it.
